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by vaidhy 4y ago
When is doing your job reasonably well means quitting? Should everyone be ambitious and cut-throat? Being content is also a very valid outlook.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
What is being implied is that you start with a finite queue size and there is a random poisson process at the rate of t adding items to the queue. Intuitively, you would expect the queue size to be finite and stable. When you simulate this,
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Does Amazon sell these or are these being sold on Amazon? That makes a big difference.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Isn't your first conclusion only true if every point in the country is close and equi-distant to a port and all ports get the same goods? In practice, you still truck multiple tonnage. In your example, the port is in LA and say, manufa
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by vaidhy 4y ago
You twist carbohydrate and you get hydrocarbons. It is just linguistically accurate :)
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Did they not fire a large portion of the teams behind the tax team (acquired company)?
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I believe rr888 was making a point in the other way.. calling brown people like me expats :)
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I am curious why this is phrased as a binary question.. I get you do not want to interact with people at all above what is bare minimum required.. but what is bare minimum in your mind? You are tasked with solving business problems and most
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by vaidhy 4y ago
When is the time US has not been at war? Maybe, we are inverting cause and effect here.. US is always at war because the budget allows for it?
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by vaidhy 4y ago
There are extremely competent programmers (10x) like there are outstanding players in sports and music. They do have an outsized impact on the projects they work on. However, they are also extremely rare. The problem, IMHO, comes from cult-
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Sorry.. mea culpa.. Please email me at vaidhy.gopalan and not vaidhy. Multiple email addresses and late evening
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I think a lot of people fall for this kind of fallacy (no offense meant to your acquaintance). 1/ You really cannot grade absolute values on a curve. As others have pointed out, your A players are only in comparison to others in your t
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Quiet Platforms @ American Eagle | Remote in US, Canada and India | Software Engineers At Quiet Platforms, we are building for a more interconnected, environmentally friendly, shared supply chain system. We are envisioning an internet of su
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by vaidhy 4y ago
What got shown was that ignoring bad behavior does not make it go away. I do not see any effort towards rehabilitation or education in SFO, just no prosecution.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Why is that messed up? Do you feel the same about army vets? How about ones who have been dishonorably discharged? I would also be curious what you feel about Rambo, the movie? Do you identify with the sheriff or the vet?
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by vaidhy 4y ago
the gas bill will bankrupt you first :)
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by vaidhy 4y ago
It seems like a big guess here. Almost all cars sell a variant with ABS. For e.g., the lowest end of Hyundai i10 (D Lite) is $4500 and has no features other than a 46 mpg. The highest variant (Asta 1.2 Kappa AT) has all the bells and whistl
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Why not read the original article that actually answers this question? The way we found out about faked data is also through science. So, is this a feel-good comment to "stick it to the science" when you are on a tech forum? Or di
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by vaidhy 4y ago
This assumes that tasks can be defined as small and large ahead of starting them which goes back to a similar mistake that you pointed out - our estimates need to be true and have high confidence. Estimates for tasks have high variance and
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by vaidhy 4y ago
The comments here are so heavily jargon laden that I have no idea what I was reading.. gto, plo, nlo, then with numbers behind them, etc.. Is there a glossary to understand those terms?
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Everyone has a story about how software projects go off-track and generally, it is not the nationality of the developers that matter. But here is an interesting observation - you do not manage a remote, outsourced team of developers as if t
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by vaidhy 4y ago
The reasoning and examples here are so badly cherry-picked that I am thinking of paying $3 per box. Yes, some people do succeed but that does not make it true for everyone.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I think most people read the SriLanka situation in reverse. My understanding is that they ran out of money to buy fertilizer and hence switched to organic as a cheaper alternative which also fizzled out - the one they imported from china tu
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Only one nitpick - I remember LE as being around 10% of the org and was strongly suggested to put around 15% on focus so that 6% can be managed out, assuming 50% of people on focus would get out of it. Source: former L7 manager, now happily
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by vaidhy 4y ago
This is really the amazon leadership principles - customer obsession, hire and develop the best, invent and simplify and deliver results :)
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I think you are looking at it wrong way. A remote exploit is one where the exploit makes use of a vuln over network. The bug/vuln is exposed in either the networking or applications accessible over the net. In this case, you need to us
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I think this is the wrong model to think about companies like Uber. Their business model is not based on unit economics, but on becoming a monopoly. Their goal was to seek rent permanently on the taxi business by putting all other taxi comp
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I like that thinking.. I am going to create my own history kinda like how the man who claimed to have conned everyone was lying about him conning everyone (and thus conning a different set of everyone :) )
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Yes they would.. except that most places where there is a walmart, there is no costco. They do not have other higher playing places that can accommodate the workforce. I currently live in Seattle and when I drive down to Portland, there is
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I have read your other comments on the thread too and I am really confused about something - are you saying that life/US treated you unfairly and hence everyone should suffer as you went through (suck it up, buttercup is the phrase I b

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